Fronted /s/ in General White South African EnglishFootnote1

1. The author would like to thank Ms Sally Hunt from the English Language and Linguistics Department, Rhodes University for first drawing his attention to the feature which is the focus of this article. Thanks are also owed to anonymous reviewers whose comments and suggestions made this paper a far better one.

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